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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/c-s-comp.jpg?w=1024″] Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. As summer turns to fall, the November auctions in New York are just over the horizon. And while much of the art world might be signing off for the next few weeks,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/the-fisherman.png?w=1024″] South Asian modern art is having a very good run. Auction sales topped $100 million last year, records have tumbled, and Christie’s and Sotheby’s have both made a show of the category in London this summer.  There is, however, a problem with all that new money: forgeries. Dealers and specialists say forgeries…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-1912294568.jpg?w=1024″] Some of New York’s most prominent cultural institutions reportedly are getting off the hook on paying fines for fire code violations. Gothamistreports that the city is not collecting fines from institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Museum of the City of New York.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/MIT-CSAIL-study-AI-generated-images.jpeg?w=1024″] A new study from researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) suggests that the more data a generative model is trained on, the less likely an AI-generated image is to be traced back to a source image. They call this phenomenon attribution decay. “If you take away a piece…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-98125717.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good Morning! The Headlines WARNING, WARNING! Sydney artist Osvaldo Budet has clashed with Maitland City Council over his artwork examining a century-old statue of an African American boy, ABC News reported. Budet’s work argues that the statue reflects racist stereotypes and the legacy of slavery, while the council considers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Judd_Sheds-exterior_Douglas-Tuck_074-.jpg?w=1024″] The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, has revealed its plans for a two-year restoration of the Artillery Sheds, which house Donald Judd’s iconic 100 untitled works in mill aluminum (1982–86). During this period, beginning in October, the 100-piece installation will be removed from view. The restoration will address several issues affecting the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025_New-Face_GLAESSNER-521-Courtesy-of-Elizabeth-Glaessner-and-P·P·O·W-New-York-Elizabeth-Glaessner-Photo-JSP-Art-Photography.jpg?w=1000″] Elizabeth Glaessner’s surreal paintings are animated by a mythic sensibility. Her figures occupy a primordial threshold where bodies, animals, and environments are in the process of coming into being. One particular canvas that Glaessner keeps in her studio reflects the metamorphic nature of her work: A vaguely humanoid figure is seated on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/VF0926_DigitalCover.jpg?w=1024″] Star artist Anna Weyant has painted designer Marc Jacobs for the cover of Vanity Fair‘s 2026 Style issue. The magazine’s cover story, “Marc Jacobs Cannot Tell a Lie,” delves into Jacobs’ four decades in fashion and the sale of his namesake, $850 million label, Marc Jacobs International. In Weyant’s up-close portrait, Jacobs…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-179133563.jpg?w=724″] The prosecutor’s office of the republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is investigating two unnamed researchers, one of them associated with the Hermitage, for war crimes. The prosecutors say they participated in illegal archaeological expeditions in the territory, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014. The charges could result…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1322928638.jpg?w=1024″] The theft of four paintings by Renaissance master Antonello da Messina from a Sicilian museum has prompted suspicions of mafia involvement, given the startling speed and ease of the high-stakes crime, Italian authorities said on Monday.  “It’s a very, very strange affair,” Messina’s top culture official, Enzo Caruso, told Reuters, detailing the…